Features
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Favourite Local Baker
1. Cora Wiens (Eadha Bread)
2. Quinn McMurray (Oma's Bakery) / Suzanne Gessler (Pennyloaf Bakery) / Oh Doughnuts (tie) -
Favourite Local Athlete
1. Desiree Scott
2. Justine Kolody / Nikolaj Ehlers (tie) -
Favourite New Local Album of 2019
1. Begonia - Fear
2. Yes We Mystic - Ten Seated Figures
3. Jamboree - Melt / Living Hour - Softer Faces / Taylor Janzen - Shouting Matches (tie)
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Favourite Local Activist / Favourite political moment
1. Leah Gazan
2. Sadie-Phoenix Lavoie / Victoria Redsun (tie)
3. Lena Andres
Favourite political moment1. Leah Gazan’s campaign, nomination and election
2. Climate strike
3. Uzoma Asagwara's election -
Favourite Local Achiever Under 30
1. Ashley Bieniarz
2. Adam Fuhr / Satina Loren (tie)
3. Sadie-Phoenix Lavoie -
Favourite Local Achiever Over 60
1. Fred Penner
2. Elder Albert McLeod
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You voted, we listened
This week’s issue of The Uniter is our special themed issue for the Uniter 30!
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Food from a different angle
What comes to mind when you think of food?
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Cast another vote. No, another one
Another month, another election gone by.
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Analog art’s not dead?
With the increase in quality and affordability of digital media, many people working in film and music have pivoted away from physical media, opting to photograph or record digitally and to release through online streaming services. But analog art isn’t dead yet.
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Juice Journal launches its 2019 anthology
Juice Journal launches its 19th edition of the University of Winnipeg (U of W) literary journal on Oct. 7.
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The not-so-secret life
With 2018’s The Secret Life of Planets, singer-songwriter Zaki Ibrahim established herself as a musician on the cutting edge of the medium.
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The kids are (not) alright
Winnipeg’s long, proud history of striking has been inherited by a new generation of organizers, leaders, and rebels: students. K to 12 students, more specifically.
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The Uniter Speaker Series presents Zaki Ibrahim
Music is a powerful and creative tool that can be used for social change and emotional confrontation. Zaki Ibrahim comes to Winnipeg on Sept.12 to share how her music embodies this and more at the upcoming Uniter Speaker Series.
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Disrupting narratives of the nuclear family
The experience of growing up and coming into a sense of identity can be a jarring process fraught with turmoil – for some more so than others.
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Ethical conYUMption
Any University of Winnipeg (U of W) student or staff who’s ever chowed down on a mushroom burger or pulled-pork poutine knows that plenty of thought and care goes into the food that’s served on campus.
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Writing in the summertime
Green leaves are growing back, the city is bubbling with activity, there are more jovial faces on the streets, and there is no need to layer up, because it is nice out! How about channeling all those summer vibes into a place poem or an ekphrastic poem?
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Real Love Summer Fest
While they do boast one local favourite as a headliner (Begonia), the co-artistic directors of Real Love Summer Fest are focusing on bringing “out-of-the-box artists” to the small festival in Teulon, Man.
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Folklorama turns 50
Folklorama started in 1970 as a one-time celebration of Manitoba’s centennial and is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. The festival is known as the world’s largest and longest-running cultural festival.
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Follow the Sun off the Grid Yoga Festival
Follow the Sun off the Grid Yoga Festival is in its third year of offering a one-day festival at Eternal Springs, just south of Lenore, Man.